Quotes About Contentment

Man does not by nature wish to earn more and more money.

At some point in life, the world's beauty becomes enough.

...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

There is nowhere else I'd rather be, nothing else I would prefer to be doing. I am at the beach looking west with the continent behind me as the sun tracks down to the sea. I have my bearings.

God, give me by Your grace what You give to dogs by nature.

Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.

To the person who desires nothing and does not get entangled in desires, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity.

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.

Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors [and then] retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper.

To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one's true nature. Realization of one's true nature is happiness. When one reaches happiness, one is close to perfection.

Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy.

The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.

Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent talents, in order to be content and complete.

It is the nature of stone to be satisfied. It is the nature of water to want to be somewhere else.

If you love to read, if you love nature and if you have a dog, you've got it made.

The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor ; who lives to fancy, never can be rich.

When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.

The point is that our true nature is not some ideal that we have to live up to. It's who we are right now, and that's what we can make friends with and celebrate.

You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.

For greed, all nature is too little.